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Patch "iwlwifi: pcie: lower the debug level for RSA semaphore access" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iwlwifi: pcie: lower the debug level for RSA semaphore access

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-pcie-lower-the-debug-level-for-rsa-semaphore-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 9fc515bc9e735c10cd327f05c20f5ef69474188d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:07:17 +0200
Subject: iwlwifi: pcie: lower the debug level for RSA semaphore access

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]>

commit 9fc515bc9e735c10cd327f05c20f5ef69474188d upstream.

IWL_INFO is not an error but still printed by default. "can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected" seems worrisome but it is not really a problem.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c +2 -2
@@ -731,8 +731,8 @@ static int iwl_pcie_rsa_race_bug_wa(stru
 	 */
 	val = iwl_read_prph(trans, PREG_AUX_BUS_WPROT_0);
 	if (val & (BIT(1) | BIT(17))) {
-		IWL_INFO(trans,
-			 "can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected\n");
+		IWL_DEBUG_INFO(trans,
+			       "can't access the RSA semaphore it is write protected\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/iwlwifi-mvm-fix-memory-leak-in-paging.patch queue-4.4/iwlwifi-pcie-lower-the-debug-level-for-rsa-semaphore-access.patch